Printing machine for silk and other materials



P. M. ZLYDIN 1,813,010

PRINTING MACHINE FOR SILK AND OTHER MATERIALS July 7, 1931.

Filed Nov. 6, 1928 P5 75/? M Z1. youv INVENTOR BY V Maw ATTORNEY Patented July 7, 1931 UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE PETER M. ZLYDIN, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

Application filed November 6, 1928.

My invention relates to printing on silk and other materials and has a particular reference to devices for dyeing silk and other fabrics into different colors.

The object of my invention is to provide a machine for printing colored patterns on textile fabrics, separating different colors by white or colorless lines.

Such printing is usually done by hand for decorating small pieces of goods, such as shawls, scarfs etc., in the following manner: The material is stretched in a frame and the outline of the design is drawn by a thin brush using some impervious to water substance, such as clay or rubber composition (or solution). The spaces between these lines are then hand painted or covered with various colors, each enclosed space into a single color of a uniform shade.

The manual process is, however, very slow and expensive. It can be greatly simplified and cheapened by means of my machine by printing first impervious lines and then printing the spaces between these lines with different colors.

My invention is more fully described in the accompanying specification and a single drawing representing a sectional elevation of my machine.

My machine consists of two separate parts: line printer and color printer. The line printer-forms the subject matter of a separate patent application.

The color printer consists of a frame 24 supporting a tray 25 with guiding pins 26. They are provided with springs 27 so that when the frame or stretcher 5 is placed on these pins, the cloth 6 is supported at a certain height above the top of the tray 25.

The desired pattern is formed in the tray 25 with strips 28. The tops of the strips 28 are made even with the top edge of the v tray 25. I

The spaces outlined by the strips 28 are I provided with apertures 29 or nipples in the sides of the tray (or in the bottom if necessary) for flexible pipes 30 extending from containers or cans .31 suspended on a a bar 32. This bar is sus ended on cords 33 from drums 34 on the end; of a shaft 35 journaled Serial No. 317,580.

in bearings 36 supported on a frame 37. The shaft 35 can be turned by a handle 38 thereby raising or lowering the bar 32. Ratchet wheels 39 engaged by pawls 4O serve to retain the bar 32 in any desired position. The cloth or a similar material 6 is stretched on a frame 5 which is ofthe same size as the tray 25, so that when the frame is placed on the tray, the cloth rests on the upper edges of the partitions or strips 28.

The operation of this machine is as follows.

The cloth 6 is stretched on the frame 5, and the design is prepared either by hand by an ordinary method, or, preferably by means of my line printing machine divisional application Serial No. 459,190, filed June 4, 1930 using a suitable impervious solution of glue or rubber. The pattern of this design should correspond to the pattern formed by the blocks or partitions 28 in the tray 25, so that when the frame 5 with cloth 6 is placed on the tray 25, the outlines of the pattern on the cloth will rest on the edges of the blocks 28. made much wider than the pattern lines in ordertoprevent the mixing of different colors. Even two blocks side by side can be used as it is shown in the drawing. The bar 32 is then raised so as to fill the spaces between the strips 28 with coloring solution clear to the tops of these strips. The stretcher is then pressed down against the springs 27 allowing the colored solution to penetrate into the cloth between the outlined figures or patterns. The stretcher with the cloth is thenremoved and placed in a fixing solution.

This process can be modified by pressing the cloth against the strips 28 and then raising the bar 32 so as to bring the colored solutions in contact with the cloth.

The amount of solutions of different colors can be determined and the containers filled accordingly so as to obtain uniform filling of the patterns with a single operation of lifting the bar 32. For small patterns the cans 31 can be only partly filled, and for large spaces two or more cans can be connected in parallel.

These blocks are in" v.

jImportant advantages of my machine are that it provides means for rapid prlnting of fancy patterns thereby replacing manual c I labor and enabling'an exact reproduction of the same pattern on a' large number of pieces of goods.

I 'I claim asmy inventions 1 Ilia machine forprinting'on silk and othermaterials, the combination with a'tray,

a frame removably supported on said tray,

said silk being stretched 'onthe' bottom surface of said frame, partitions on said tray. 7 [forming closedpatterns, spaces in saidicl'ose'd' patterns being adapted tobe filled with liquid solutions of dyes, and means to raise the level of said solutions-to the edgesof said partitions ands-in a contactith said .silkon said frame. e r

2 In a machine for printing on-silkvand other materials, the combination with a tray,v V \5 partitions on saidtray forming closed patterns, means to: fill 'the spaces in -said closed patterns with liquid solutions of difiierent dyes, a frame adapted to support saidisilk and further: adapted to be placed on said tray thereby bringing said silkein contact if With said dyes, and means vto separate; the outlines of the adjacent patterns on said silk.

e Ina machine-foir' printing on silk and other materials,.the combination With a tray, partitions on said tray forming qlosed;patterns, means to fill'thevspaees in said closed patterns with solutions of 'dyes-iand to raise said solutions to the edges of said partitions, a frame adapted to support said sill?- in a stretched condition on its bottom surface and further adapted too be placed on said tray thereby bringing said silk in contactwith said dyes, saidpartitions being "formed-of double walls. with spacesxbetyveen'said Walls adapted to; receive the overflow from said spaces with: dye solutionsthere'by prevent;

'ing the mixing of said solutions. at the edges Signed at ,Br oklyn-in the" county of Kings and Stateiof NeW'York 5thzday ofJulyAhD: 1929.

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